No Name - NF

The Experience:What is my purpose? Yeah that is a question that I have been asking myself and it hurts. 'Cause it's prolly something I should already know but I don't know it yet... You have a purpose. Meaning is out there, but it takes so long to find it...

Music video: NF walks along an abandoned road, getting farther and farther from his car - the way back out or the way on to the future - as he raps. But it's not a one way trip. He doesn't get lost in his emotions: when the song's over - when he's left it all on the stage, he gets it together and gets out of the dark back to the car and his way out.

The Meaning of No Name: NF searches for meaning - that is a question that I have been asking myself and it hurts. 'Cause it's prolly something I should already know but I don't know it yet. The people who try to make you something - marketing dollars - can't give you meaning. And they don't make NF who he is. It's not fame - fame called me, I'm like, "How you doin'?" Hung up on him. Meaning and purpose are something you have to discover yourself - drive my own car, I don't like the valet. But it's hard to discover who you are when you lie to everyone - act like my image is hard I always put up my guard even when talkin' to God everything that I'm not comes out in the music I jot. NF doesn't cater to the fans' wishes - I don't come out and take pictures. He's got enough work just trying to figure out his own.

Ask yourself: How much effort to you waste trying to seem like something you're not instead of actually becoming who you want to be?Album: - (2017)

LYRICS:

Look, people ask me what the future isAll I know is I'll be doin' thisAll I know is things are moving quickThat's convenient for me 'cause that's how I liveNow they see me out here movin' upYou don't like me, that makes two of usTimes change, yeah, I can't adjustYo, it's who you are not who you was, oh myYeah, just went to Europe, they said the single is workingI think I'm learning, I am way more than people might think when they look on the surfaceWhat is my purpose? YeahThat is a question that I have been asking myself and it hurts'Cause it's prolly something I should already know but I don't know it yet, I'm tryna grow as a person, woo!I'm sick of people tellin' people I'm here 'cause of marketing dollars, ohYou think that everything is gonna blow just 'cause you market it harder? NoI got my hands in everything, now they out here tryna get to meStop tryna lecture meYou don't compare to my level of thinking, so why do you think you compare to my energy, huh?Small circle, but the number's growin'Fame called me, I'm like, "How you doin'?"Hung up on him, I ain't ready for itI'll get back to that when I make album fourLess talking, I've been workin' moreBetter me is what I'm workin' towardsY'all judgin', but we not in court, no, we not in court, oh Lord!Last couple years, let's recapI make a livin' off of writin' out my regretsI'm doin' me, I don't care where the scene's atTry to give me feedback, I don't really need thatI used to walk on stage in a V-neckI used to wear a lil' tie with a black vestI came a long way, why you lookin' upset?I'm tryna paint a picture, get the vision, you ain't hear it yet, woo!Look, hold up, hold up, wait a minute, pleaseFlow's switchin', I got ADDBrain scatters when you play the beatIt don't matter what you say to meI'll be doin' this at 83I've been doin' this since ABC'sIn the major leagues doin' major things, don't play with me, woo!I'm livin' life in the fast laneWake up every morning thinkin' I'ma have a bad dayDrive my own car, I don't like the valetParked, then I go into my mind with an AKShoot every thought in my head then it rotatesLosin' it all, but I think that I'm okayWho is involved? I don't know, but I'm insanePoof and I'm gone, wanna call me a no name, what!?I'm prolly not what you thoughtI'm prolly not what you thoughtI used to judge everybody that wasn't like me 'til I learned it was wrongGirl told me I should get it together and get out the darkI'm tryna give her my heartThat's when I sit in my car, writin' for hours until I can barely talkI mean, where do I start?Feels like I'm fallin' apartAct like my image is hardI always put up my guardEven when talkin' to GodSit in my room and I plotEverything that I'm notComes out in the music I jotI give it all that I gotI give it all that I got!I'm tryna think out the box, no!Yeah, I got people standing outside a bus screaming my nameI don't come out and take pictures, they tell me I changedI don't smile in VIPs, you get mad like, "You know what I paid?"Guess I don't know what to sayGuess I don't know what to sayI leave it all on the stageI leave it all on the stagereview by Benjamin O'Loughlin

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